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This comparison of Application Virtual Machines lists some of the common software virtual machines that implement the concept of application virtualization, typically for the purpose of allowing application binaries to be portably run on many different computer architectures and operating systems. The application is usually run on the computer using an interpreter or just-in-time compilation.
[edit] Application Virtual Machines
| Virtual machine |
Languages |
Comments |
| Common Language Runtime |
C#, Visual Basic .NET, J#, Managed C++, Python, Ruby and other .NET languages. |
reference implementation by Microsoft |
| Forth virtual machine |
Forth |
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| Glulx |
Glulx, Z-code |
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| Inferno |
Limbo |
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| Java virtual machine |
Java, Groovy, Jython, JRuby, Scala and several others |
reference implementation by Sun |
| Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) |
C, C++, Objective-C, Ada, and Fortran |
|
| Lua |
|
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| Adobe Flash Player |
ActionScript, SWF (file format) |
interactive web authoring tool |
| MMIX |
MMIXAL |
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| Mono |
.NET languages |
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| Neko virtual machine |
currently Neko and haXe |
|
| O-code machine |
BCPL |
|
| p-code machine |
Pascal |
UCSD Pascal, widespread in late 70s including Apple II |
| Parrot |
Perl 6, and others experimentally |
|
| Perl virtual machine |
Perl |
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| Portable.NET |
C#, Visual Basic .NET, J#, Managed C++ |
| Python virtual machine |
Python |
|
| ScummVM |
Scumm |
computer game engine |
| SECD machine |
ISWIM, Lispkit Lisp |
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| Shotgun |
Ruby |
virtual machine of the Rubinius project |
| Smalltalk virtual machine |
Smalltalk |
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| Sqlite virtual machine |
Sqlite opcodes |
virtual database engine |
| Squeak virtual machine |
Squeak |
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| TrueType virtual machine |
TrueType |
font rendering engine |
| Valgrind |
x86/x86 64 binaries |
checking of memory accesses and leaks under Linux |
| VX32 virtual machine |
|
application-level virtualization for native code |
| Waba |
|
Virtual machine for small devices, similar to Java |
| Warren Abstract Machine |
Prolog |
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| Yet Another Ruby VM (YARV) |
Ruby |
virtual machine of the reference implementation for Ruby 1.9 and newer versions |
| Z-machine |
Z-Code |
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| Zend Engine |
PHP |
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